Santo @chalupamacabre.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Good call, you wouldn’t want to risk identity theft! Just imagine if some asshole was out there pretending to be you 010
Santo @chalupamacabre.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Got to see @robynhitchcock.bsky.social tonight at The Sugar Club and I’m not sure how to express the pure joy and relief and satisfaction I feel after 40 years of listening, to finally see him live, AND to get an autographed copy of a CD that has been on regular play in my rotation for 4 decades. 010
Santo @chalupamacabre.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Last leg of my flight home and even with a two hour layover in Chicago it’s going to be tight because we have been sitting on the tarmac for about 40 minutes waiting to pull up to a gate. 000
Santo @chalupamacabre.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I hope he gets to come home soon, but I’m glad you got some solid cuddle time with him. I bet he appreciated it. 010
Santo @chalupamacabre.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I literally have this conversation with my wife seemingly every other week 010
Santo @chalupamacabre.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Also I discovered a steam deck and No Man’s Sky is a great way to burn through a 7 hour flight. 000
Santo @chalupamacabre.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I lived this, traveled 15+ hours, close to 18-19 hours all in, and I literally passed out at 8pm. But tomorrow I do it all over again to fly home, arriving at 9am. Send Red Bull and prayers 110
Santo @chalupamacabre.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I have almost 20 minutes before they open pre clearance for my flight, I have my coffee and my breakfast and probably 1.5 hours to kill. I have no anxiety about being late, what are you talking about 010
Santo @chalupamacabre.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Next he’s gonna say it’s the year of the Linux desktop 010
Santo @chalupamacabre.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I’ve seen similar over the past five years, including at least a couple roles at a company that have been listed for multiple years. 010
Santo @chalupamacabre.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I swear I thought this was a Survival Research Labs joke at first, and got confused that they might be making a video game. www.youtube.com/user/surviva...youtube.comGenuine Survival Research Labs 010
Santo @chalupamacabre.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I never got past the start of the second plane, I always died of thirst 010
Santo @chalupamacabre.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Had to search, first response using DuckDuckGo, points to a sci-fi stackexchange thread. 010
Reposted by SantoJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying 854125841
Reposted by SantoDennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"Crunch" in #videogame dev is neither a right of passage or a product of poor scheduling. It is a *MANAGEMENT CHOICE* to grind free work out of people and stretch them beyond their usual man-month capacity. It is, quite literally, monetized burnout where the company wins and you lose. 24312
Santo @chalupamacabre.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The great thing about living in Ireland is that it’s nearly time to get up, so I won’t lose any sleep for very long this. 110
Santo @chalupamacabre.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Watching the live speech of the US president in Ireland and wow, this is … a mess. On the bright side apparently the US is now all in on Irish Reunification 000
Santo @chalupamacabre.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Well this would mean I’d be back working at EA again I suppose 030
Santo @chalupamacabre.bsky.social · 10/09/2026my personal favorite is: Departing airport: “keep liquids in your bags, can have up to a 1 liter bottle” Returning airport: “500ml max fluid, all liquids in a clear bag, take them out of your luggage” it would really not be that hard to maintain a singular set of standards. 010
Santo @chalupamacabre.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Well at least we can get headline news every time Rory is sitting 8th or lower in a tournament. “It can only be a good thing” is some amazing out of touch “I don’t do politics” … while doing the politics. 000
Santo @chalupamacabre.bsky.social · 08/09/2026What do you mean by a passport of convenience? I am at risk, after 4 years and 11 months of working, planning, and preparing, going to have to wait another three years to even apply for citizenship. I’m angry and scared because this means if I ever get laid off, my right to stay is at risk. 101
Santo @chalupamacabre.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Have you considered giving them more treats? Tis a poor carpenter that blames his tools, sir. 010
Santo @chalupamacabre.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I loved this, I cried so hard, and it gave me anxiety like waiting to hear results from the vet. Amazing movie and it was an incredible experience 000
Santo @chalupamacabre.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Was just at a music festival where this happened and it was the talk of the festival. Lots of people submitted feedback requesting a policy banning same, so the people aren’t just letting it slide! 020
Santo @chalupamacabre.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Nope I fucked up and looked it up and it is a bell that cannot be unrung once struck. 021
Santo @chalupamacabre.bsky.social · 15/08/2026This is the classic language of “if you suffer it is because you are weak” I’ve been laid off (weird case) once, and I hadn’t even started the job yet. And it was rough. 010
Santo @chalupamacabre.bsky.social · 09/08/2026I can’t count the number of times I’ve told people that I knew it would be hard, but it was harder than expected . And we did as much prep as we could. “Surely I can just move there” is the wildest take, but I have heard it more than once. 010
Santo @chalupamacabre.bsky.social · 06/07/2026If you haven’t seen this, it’s a glorious ad for the Six Nations Rugby Tournament, and relevant to the “never support England” mentality. Which runs DEEP here. youtu.be/UmkbJlYx1v8?...youtu.be[HUMOR] Six Nations 2012 clip trailer banned on BBC SportYouTube video by Marcopepito 010
Santo @chalupamacabre.bsky.social · 01/07/2026You probably have it already but I’m digging Forbidden Solitaire. 110
Santo @chalupamacabre.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Five other people and at least two of em couldn’t shut their mouths during the film. I still loved it though. Backrooms was a treat. 000
Santo @chalupamacabre.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Taking a week off between new projects and I’m doing something today I haven’t done in over a decade, possibly closer to two: I’m seeing a movie in the theater, by myself. It’s bliss. So far (10 min to start) the theater is completely empty. 100
Santo @chalupamacabre.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Funny weren’t the centrists the ones constantly telling the left wing that they all had to pull together? Vote blue no matter who? How shocking! 000
Santo @chalupamacabre.bsky.social · 26/06/2026What do you mean by distribution has been walled off? 000
Santo @chalupamacabre.bsky.social · 25/06/2026My guess is for ease of readability once the tree gets complex enough. If you have 25 nodes all pointing to one from different branches, you now need someone to manage the node layout to keep it from being spaghetti 020
Santo @chalupamacabre.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Do it. There are artists I kept meaning to see “someday” and now they’re dead and I’ll never see them. You’ll never regret going to a show. Even if it’s the shits, you get a story. 020
Santo @chalupamacabre.bsky.social · 06/06/2026You just summarized the thing I love about all of your novels. They are cool and weird and you don’t make a point of explaining them to death. The mystery is where life is. 0160
Santo @chalupamacabre.bsky.social · 05/06/2026I am such a clacky keyboard dingus now, but I used to love the Microsoft natural keyboard. The old original white one. I used to have two or three new that I worked through after they stopped making them. Made FPSes a bit tough though 000
Santo @chalupamacabre.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Now do a test between a coin flip and investment managers. Or a dice roll vs CEO strategies. I’ll wait. 140
Santo @chalupamacabre.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Amazing quiet Sunday in Sligo. An afternoon whiskey, a book, and a view. 100
Santo @chalupamacabre.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Aha! That’s the real reason your driver was pulling you away from me as you left WotC all those years ago. It wasn’t to get you to the airport on time, he was just tired of hearing you recommend Tolstoy and he knew 3 minutes was coming fast!! 000
Santo @chalupamacabre.bsky.social · 15/05/2026If I ask nicely, will the kitten posting continue even when morale improves to never-before-seen levels? Please? 000
Santo @chalupamacabre.bsky.social · 14/05/2026oh fun! the background poster says it’s NJPW? I fell off following a lot of the Japanese Puroresu after the 90s, but it’s a really interesting difference between that and either the american stuff or Lucha Libre. I still consider myself lucky enough to have been a kid in the last territory days! 010
Santo @chalupamacabre.bsky.social · 12/05/2026The only scenario I can come up with is this being used against you for insurance policies or premiums. “Clearly you used to smoke!” 000
Santo @chalupamacabre.bsky.social · 11/05/2026the MUD I used to play on back in the early 90s is still operational to this day. and still free. 010
